Tornado Warning 15, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

Jul 7, 1996, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)

Expired

Jul 7, 1996, 9:30 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Dawson County, NE

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TTAA00 KGRI 080142
TORGRI
NEC047-080230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
841 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY
 
...PERSONS IN GOTHENBURG...FARNAM AND COZAD SHOULD GO TO YOUR TORNADO
SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW...
 
AT 839 PM...A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CONTAINING A POSSIBLE
TORNADO...WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN DAWSON COUNTY.  ON ITS CURRENT PATH
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE GOTHENBURG AREA AROUND 900 PM. THE STORM
WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT NEARLY 30 MPH.  LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY
FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE LEXINGTON AREA SHORTLY AFTER 900 PM.
 
 
 
ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.  GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER OR
HIDE IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
 
MORITZ/JG

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 7, 2:09 PM CDT, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.

CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
208 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996

LOCATION OF THUNDESTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT ARE FORECAST CONCERNS.

MIDDAY SFC ANAL CONTINUED TO SHOW OLD FRONTAL BOUNDRY IN SRN KS WITH DEW
POINTS >65 INTO SC NEB AND >70 IN NC KS.  PROFILER DATA INDICATES S/W
MOVG OUT OF SE WY INTO NEB P/H.  ONLY RETURNS AT PRESENT ON 88D IS IN
JEWELL CO KS.  THIS MORNING TRW WAS OBSERVERED WITH VERY WEAK RETURNS
<30DB.  UPSLOPE IN WRN NEB AND NW KS.

ONLY MODEL LOOKED AT WAS THE NGM.  X-SECTION ACROSS CWA SHOWS PVA FROM
02Z-09Z.  GRIDDED DATA ALSO INDICATES POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN FROM
LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING.  8/7H QV CONVERGENCE ALSO INDICATED
OVERNIGHT.  BOTTOM LINE IS AS S/W MOVES INTO MOISTURE TONIGHT TRW  SHOULD
BEGIN TO FIRE AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AND HAVE HEAVY RAIN.
STORMS LIKELY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING.  WITH THE CLOUDS AND PRECIP ON
MONDAY TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE COOLER THAN THE LAST WEEK OR SO BEFORE
INCREASING BY MID WEEK AS A WARM FRONT PUSHES BACK ACROSS THE AREA.
GRI 066/079 75                    HBR 067/082 75
ODX 062/078 64                    BEL 068/086 55
LXN 063/078 74P

GRIFFITH

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